Key: C major
Verse 1
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When I was a lad in a fishing town
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An old man said to me
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You can spend your life, your jolly life
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Just sailing on the sea
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You can search the world for pretty girls
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If you don't know how to swim
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Cos her hair is green as seaweed
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And her skin is blue and pale
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And I'll tell you now, before you start
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You can love that girl with all your heart
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But you're just gonna love the upper part
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You're not gonna like the tail
So I signed on to a whaling ship
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And the very first day at sea
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I seen a mermaid in the waves
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A -reachin' out to me
I'll show you a million
pulled me down,
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down to a seaweed bed
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And a pillow made of tortoiseshell
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she placed beneath my head
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But the rest of her was a bitch
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Her hair was green as seaweed
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And her face, it was a work of art
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And I loved that girl with all my heart
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But I only loved the upper part,
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I did not like the tail
Then one day she swam away
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and sang to the clams and whales
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I missed her fins and her seaweed hair
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and the silvery shine of her scales
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but the bottom part was a girl
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Her toes were pink and rosy
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And her knees were smooth and pale
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And her legs, they are a work of art
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And I love that girl with all my heart
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the upper part
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And that's how I end my tale
Outro 1
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